Xkuz

Fabien Mazé, better known under the pseudonym Xkuz is an artist born in 1985 in the Hauts-de-France region. Having always liked to draw since his childhood, it is by being interested in hip-hop culture that graffiti becomes obvious to him. Attracted by the illegal side, he wrote his first tags on the walls in 1998, the beginning of ten years of activism, mainly on the walls bordering the roads and railways in his region.

He took a turn in 2008, during his training in graphic arts. Aesthetic research then takes precedence over visibility. The fallow buildings become his main playground, he feels free there and above all finds the optimal conditions to create successful frescoes. Urban exploration becomes a passion, he spends a lot of time in abandoned industrial environments which he particularly appreciates for their architecture.

The alphabet and painting are the two raw materials of the artist, who inscribes his work in a process of transmission and communication. As information becomes protean, sometimes indecipherable, Xkuz deconstructs the letter, mimicking the difficult interpretation of signs in modern communication. The image becomes the content, the form makes sense, in a singular approach where color, even without contours, becomes a vector of information.

For several years, Xkuz has also been developing his studio work by producing serigraphs, canvases and engravings which he regularly exhibits solo or with his collective, the Dislexik Crew. He also participates in many international graffiti and Street Art festivals such as the Meeting of styles in Kosovo, Germany, Poland and Denmark, but also in France with Shake Well (Bordeaux), Colorama (Biarritz), 10th Art ( Aurillac), MX29 (Morlaix) or Graphic Art (Puteaux).